Here is a hot topic that is local to BC and needs some serious discussion. I have enjoyed a couple of educational videos involving Queens University Law Professor Bruce Pardy speaking on protecting property owner’s rights. The BC NDP premier has taken us in a direction involving First Nations, UNDRIP, DRIPA, unceded territory and the contested fee simple land title rights of individuals and businesses.
This video is gob smacking Lorne. This is a serious and unsettled issue... it’s not a done deal, and it deserves clarity, not panic. but still... I wouldn't want to be anywhere near this issue.
Here is a hot topic that is local to BC and needs some serious discussion. I have enjoyed a couple of educational videos involving Queens University Law Professor Bruce Pardy speaking on protecting property owner’s rights. The BC NDP premier has taken us in a direction involving First Nations, UNDRIP, DRIPA, unceded territory and the contested fee simple land title rights of individuals and businesses.
That’s a very real issue to raise, Lorne... and you’re right, it doesn’t get the serious, plain-language treatment it deserves in BC.
What Bruce Pardy does well is strip the rhetoric away and force the hard question most governments try to glide past...
What happens to individual property rights when the legal ground underneath them becomes “contested” by design?
The tension you’re pointing to isn’t imaginary or fringe. It sits right at the fault line between...
Fee-simple land title (what homeowners and businesses think they own)
The province’s interpretation of United Nations UNDRIP through DRIPA
“Unceded territory” as a political and legal framing
And a British Columbia New Democratic Party government that has been remarkably vague about where this ends
The problem isn’t reconciliation as a goal.
The problem is legal ambiguity as policy.
If citizens don’t clearly know...
what their title actually guarantees,
who can override it,
under what authority,
and with what compensation (or lack of it),
then you don’t have reconciliation... you have uncertainty. And uncertainty kills trust, investment, and social cohesion.
This is exactly the kind of conversation BC needs before it’s settled by courts, precedent, or quiet administrative creep.
If you’ve got links to those videos, drop them. This one deserves daylight... not slogans.
https://www.facebook.com/100009552393475/posts/pfbid03vDfCXePrUoKRJhtRjYuAdT7F4ABLHMQYkL22zLpxdhW7VosKnZmZefe3HNCjurTl/?
This video is gob smacking Lorne. This is a serious and unsettled issue... it’s not a done deal, and it deserves clarity, not panic. but still... I wouldn't want to be anywhere near this issue.
I understand …..it is very controversial, very politically explosive. I wonder if Eby’s government will survive it.
This is way over my pay grade Lorne... even to guess how this settles legally.